USA Today - Dec 5 2008

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Clues Answers
''A Question of Blood'' author Rankin IAN
''Balloon'' ending IST
''Ben-Hur'' novelist Wallace LEW
''Lo'' or ''chow'' follower MEIN
''The Untouchables'' protagonist NESS
''What's the ___?'' (quitter's comment) USE
13th-century literary work EDDA
A cyclops has only one EYELID
Ability to hit pitches? EAR
Ain't corrected ISNT
Arson aftermath ASHES
Bad joke's sound? THUD
Baghdad local IRAQI
Bait and switch, e.g. TACTIC
Balm ingredient ALOE
Barbecues badly CHARS
Batman and Robin, e.g. DUO
Bet, but don't raise SEE
Botanical study FLORA
Broadway's auntie MAME
Comes down with HAS
Commotion HOOHAH
Company with a spokesduck AFLAC
Cross-out DELETION
Duds ATTIRE
Dumpster deposit TRASH
Friday's opening THISISTHECITY
Grimm beginning ONCEUPONATIME
Hair line? PART
Hawthorne's were told twice TALES
Heart problem ANGINA
Hot rod rod AXLE
It drags in the water TRAWL
It may be described as ''6 rms riv vu'' APT
Its mascot is Nipper RCA
Jeans alternative CHINOS
Jetsons' pet ASTRO
Le smoking creator's monogram YSL
Letter from Greece TAU
Clues Answers
List shortener ETAL
Lowly workers, figuratively COGS
Mexican Hat locale UTAH
Newspaper unit ISSUE
Norton, according to Kramden PALOMINE
Not merely smoldering AFIRE
Old late-night mind reader CARNAC
On-the-way-out PC component CRT
One-named Queen of Tejano SELENA
Outlandish 1940s suit ZOOT
Paul Simon was one, in song ROCK
Pulled someone's leg HOAXED
Purloined TOOK
Rerun's pal on ''What's Happening!!'' RAJ
Santana's ''___ Como Va'' OYE
Shark's natural enemy? JET
Shout after some near misses OLE
Smoke solid TAR
Sorry RUEFUL
Speech-giver's reference NOTECARD
Start of a whale of a story CALLMEISHMAEL
Submit a resume APPLY
Table d'___ (restaurant offering) HOTE
Talks without a 39-Down ADLIBS
Teens might try to cover them up ZITS
Terminate SCRUB
The ''nostra'' of Cosa Nostra OUR
The ones here THESE
Those, south of the border ESOS
Top-notch AONE
Traditional cold remedy HOTTEA
U.S. gas brand retired in 1972 ESSO
Unwelcome word from a surgeon OOPS
Verbal flourishes TADAS
Where one may find toys scattered PLAYROOM
Widow of King Hussein NOOR
Wolf Man portrayer Chaney LON
Word with ''greater'' or ''rather'' THAN
___ Velva AQUA